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Lowry, Wilson

State Library of New South Wales

Old Toongabbie and Toongabbie

Traditional country of the Darug people, Toongabbie was settled as early as 1792 and quickly became an important farming centre, worked by convicts. Roads and railways shaped the town's growth, as it was increasingly integrated into Sydney's western suburbs.

Old Toongabbie

Residential suburb north-west of Parramatta, lying along Toongabbie Creek. Its name probably comes from being older than than the area near Toongabbie railway station.

Toongabbie

Residential suburb west of Parramatta, built on Burramattagal country. It was the site of one of the colony's earliest successful farms worked with convict labour. As the area that grew up around the railway station from 1880, it is distinguished from Old Toongabbie alongside the creeks.

A western view of Toongabbe

Picture by Wilson Lowry published in An account of the English colony in New South Wales by David Collins in 1798.